Barnes & Noble Announces the Best Books of 2017

B&N List Arrives Just in Time to Help Customers Find the Perfect Gift this Holiday Season

New York, NY – November 20, 2017 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest retail bookseller, today announced the best books of 2017 as chosen by the Company's expert booksellers. The carefully curated list is broken out by genre and comes just in time to help customers across the country find the perfect gifts for the holiday season. The list is online now at BN.com and features the best of 2017 in fiction, nonfiction, teens, kids, mysteries & thrillers, and history, biography and memoir. All titles are available at Barnes & Noble stores nationwide and online.

“2017 was a great year in books, with some of the biggest authors in the industry coming out with highly anticipated new works and some new, remarkable authors coming onto the scene,” said Liz Harwell, Senior Director of Merchandising, Trade Books at Barnes & Noble. “This year more than ever the best books list represents a diverse range of genres and interests, making it another great resource for customers across the country looking to find the perfect gift this holiday season.”

The best books of 2017 according to Barnes & Noble’s expert booksellers, and categorized by genre, are:

Fiction

In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende

Origin by Dan Brown

The Late Show by Michael Connelly

Manhattan Beach: A Novel by Jennifer Egan

Future Home of the Living God: A Novel by Louise Erdrich

A Column of Fire by Ken Follett

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

The Rooster Bar by John Grisham

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks

Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King

A Legacy of Spies by John Le Carré

Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker (Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition) by Gregory Maguire

The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Gamache Series #13) by Louise Penny

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

Sourdough by Robin Sloan

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Artemis by Andy Weir

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Nonfiction

You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie

Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden

Grant by Ron Chernow

Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West by Tom Clavin

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly

Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews

The American Spirit: Who We Are & What We Stand For by David McCullough

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem by Bill Nye

About Barnes & Noble

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